Annual Statistical Supplement, 2015
Program Provisions and SSA Administrative Data
SSA Administrative Data
Hearings and Appeals
Item | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
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Number of ALJs | 1,230 | 1,301 | 1,356 | 1,311 |
Average monthly hearing dispositions per ALJ a | 50 | 50 | 48 | 43 |
Average hearings pending per ALJ | 523 | 533 | 577 | 688 |
SOURCES: Social Security Administration, Office of Disability Adjudication and Review. Actual data from the Key Workload Indicator Report. | ||||
NOTE: Number of ALJs and average monthly hearing dispositions per ALJ based on fiscal year average ALJ availability; average hearings pending per ALJ based on ALJs on duty. Data exclude Regional Chief ALJs. | ||||
a. Calculation excludes Attorney Adjudicator decisions. | ||||
CONTACT: Chuck Gramens (703) 605-8413 or statistics@ssa.gov. |
Program | Hearing level receipts | Hearing level dispositions | End-of-year pending cases | ||||||
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2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | |
Total | 849,869 | 824,989 | 810,715 | 820,484 | 793,580 | 680,963 | 816,575 | 847,984 | 977,736 |
OASI | 1,902 | 1,973 | 2,018 | 1,886 | 1,839 | 1,818 | 1,138 | 1,268 | 1,471 |
Disability | |||||||||
DI | 265,454 | 264,625 | 275,384 | 252,820 | 245,018 | 211,270 | 241,578 | 260,441 | 323,749 |
SSI | 247,341 | 239,355 | 229,830 | 234,688 | 230,345 | 200,983 | 246,177 | 254,969 | 283,589 |
DI and SSI | 335,172 | 319,036 | 303,483 | 331,090 | 316,378 | 266,892 | 327,682 | 331,306 | 368,927 |
SOURCES: Social Security Administration, Office of Disability Adjudication and Review. Actual data from the Case Processing and Management System and Key Workload Indicator Report. | |||||||||
NOTE: Some claims are resclassifed from one program to another during their processing cycle. End-of-year adjustments account for those reclassifications. | |||||||||
CONTACT: Chuck Gramens (703) 605-8413 or statistics@ssa.gov. |
Cases | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
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Beginning-of-year pending | 106,664 | a 153,242 | 161,070 | 157,311 |
Receipts | 173,332 | 173,848 | 172,492 | 155,352 |
Dispositions | 126,992 | 166,020 | 176,251 | 162,280 |
End-of-year pending | 153,004 | 161,070 | 157,311 | 150,383 |
SOURCES: Social Security Administration, Office of Disability Adjudication and Review. Actual data from the Appeals Review Processing System and Key Workload Indicator Report. | ||||
a. Because of calendar variations and agency budgeting and accounting rules, one week occasionally falls between the end of one fiscal year and the beginning of the next. In September 2011, that week saw 2,159 receipts and 1,921 dispositions, thus adding 238 cases to the total pending at the end of fiscal year 2011. | ||||
CONTACT: Chuck Gramens (703) 605-8413 or statistics@ssa.gov. |